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Direct linkGregory Nelson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of the qualitative phenomenological study was to explore and understand the impact of standardized testing on educational practice in an urban, Title I school community, and to determine solutions to improve the utility of standardized testing in supporting student learning and achievement. The specific areas of focus are diagnosing…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Instructional Leadership, Administrator Attitudes, Urban Schools
Holmes, Susan E. – 1980
The purpose of the research was to explore an alternative implementation strategy for Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I evaluation Model A; that is, the use of Rasch calibrated item banks rather than traditional norm-referenced tests. A methodology for obtaining normative information for such banks involved equating a normed test with…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Item Banks
Download full textDavidoff, Stephen H.; Allen, David W. – 1973
A part of the results of the evaluation of more than 50 federally funded ESEA Title I projects in Philadelphia, this volume reports on the evaluation of the cluster "Cultural, Affective, and Supportive Services." Projects in this cluster seek to provide children with additional activities and services that are designed to enrich their…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cultural Enrichment, Elementary Education, Enrichment Activities
Sundberg, Barbara J.; Stayrook, Nick – 1998
This report presents results from a 3-year evaluation of the Title I "Success for All" (SFA) schoolwide program being implemented at four elementary schools in the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, Alaska. SFA meets the criteria of Title I regulations and has a strong reading component with frequent assessments of student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
Policy Research Corp., Chicago, IL. – 1978
This study, mandated by Congress in the Education Amendments of 1974, was designed to produce estimates which describe the goals of compensatory programs, program operating characteristics, and evaluation techniques in use in compensatory programs. For the purpose of the study, the population sample was defined as all operating public school…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Compensatory Education, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education
Evaluation of Title I ESEA Projects, 1971-1972. Volume IV, Auxiliary Services to Schools and Pupils.
Chern, Hermine J.; And Others – 1973
This final volume of reports on the evaluation of ESEA Title I projects in Philadelphia 1971-1972 is concerned with the cluster "Auxiliary Services to Schools and Pupils." In this report are examined the theoretical bases for the creation and integration of projects directed toward the broad-based career development goals of the School…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Counseling Services, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Rost, Paul; And Others – 1972
Albuquerque's Title I evaluation staff is in the process of generating a comprehensive local evaluation design because it considers the federally required product evaluation unsatisfactory. The required mean-gain comparisons were extended beyond the dimension of program to the dimensions of school, grade, and Title I instructor. This evaluation…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs
Goldsmith, Barbara C.; And Others – 1973
ESEA Title I projects related to school-community relations and unique staffing patterns, carried out in Philadelphia during 1971-1972, are evaluated in this volume. The six projects in this cluster are: School-Community Coordinator Services; New Staffing Patterns in Educational Improvement Program Schools; Kindergarten Aides and Supervisors;…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Kindergarten
Powell, George; And Others – 1979
The tenability of the equipercentile growth assumption was investigated. This assumption is the basis of the norm referenced evaluation model (Model A) for Title I program evaluations, and supposes that a cohort of students, given no special educational intervention, will maintain the same percentile rank over the course of a school year, as…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Powell, George D.; Raffeld, Paul C. – 1980
The equipercentile assumption states that students in traditional classrooms who receive no other instructional assistance, will maintain their relative rank order over time. To test this assumption, fall to fall test results on the SRA Achievement Tests were obtained for grades 2-3, and 6-7. Total reading and total mathematics growth scale values…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Peer reviewedLinn, Robert L. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1979
The internal validity of the RMC models, especially Model A, is examined. Concern centers on limiting evaluation to cognitive outcomes, using constant percentile as the no-treatment expectation, and using norms for one test to establish the expected no-treatment performance level for another test. (MH)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Fish, Owen W. – 1979
Two ESEA Title I evaluation models developed by the Resource Management Corporation (RMC), were field tested simultaneously with 560 Title I reading students, grades 2-8. Measuring instruments for models 1 and 2 were, respectively, the California Achievement Test (reading vocabulary section), a norm-referenced test; and the Tarmac Reading…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Comparative Testing, Compensatory Education, Criterion Referenced Tests
Kilian, Lawrence J.; Kagen, Edward – 1981
The effect of Title I reading instruction was examined in a group of students as they progressed from grade two through grade six. The number of students who fell below the twenty-third percentile on a reading achievement test (the criterion for Title I participation) was tabulated for each year to determine the program's effectiveness both in…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs, Longitudinal Studies
Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1981
Data from 8 of the 13 instruments used to provide answers to the decision and evaluation questions for evaluation of the 1980-81 ESEA Title I regular program in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District comprise Volume II of the final technical report. A separate appendix for each instrument includes a description of its purpose, procedure,…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Data Collection, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education
Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1980
Seventeen instruments were used to provide the answers to the design and evaluation questions for the 1979-80 ESEA Title I regular program in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District. In the final technical report, a separate appendix for each instrument includes a description of its purpose, procedure, and results as related to specific…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria
